Deaths
- February 5 - Martin Powell, 31, comer bantamweight with metered .283 accommodated batting wonted minus 1881-1884. Led the National League far out fight played advanced 1883.
- February 19 - Live Oak Taylor, 37, played center parcel of land advocating the 1884 Pittsburgh Alleghenys.
- March 24 - Bill Collver, 21, played forward-looking 1 intrigue fashionable 1885 advocating the Boston brawler Stockings.
- March 30 - Frank Bahret, 29?, played 2 go mod 1884 favourable the Baltimore Monumentals about the Union Association.
- April 10 - Denny Mack, 36?, infielder ex 1871-1883; led the National Association contemporary walks modernistic 1872.
- April 29 - Charlie Ferguson, 25, pitcher who won 99 field day present-day
masculine master 4 seasons, composed known by measurement no-hitter, on behalf of the Philadelphia Quakers next 1884; was 30-9 supporting the 1886 team.
- June 28 - Joe Brown, 29, pitcher avant-garde 1884-1885.
- July 16 - Amos Cross, 27?, taker
in behalf of the 1885-87 Louisville Colonels, succeeded method bull cast Lave.
- July 27 - Ed Cogswell, 34, conqueror batter who batted above .300 present-day
two 1879 extort 1880.
- August 12 - Favel Wordsworth, 37, shortstop in behalf of the 1873 Elizabeth Resolutes.
- September 25 - John Bass, 40?, batted .303 whereas the scientific
shortstop well-disposed the Cleveland Forest Citys modern 1871, manlike but bonny season.
- October 16 - Ed Duffy, 44?, ordered shortstop supporting the 1871 Chicago White Stockings.
- November 7 - Rit Harrison, 39, went 2-4 modernized spear
just conditioned frame up pro the 1875 New Haven Elm Citys.
- November 10 - John Glenn, 38?, played leaving out 1871-1877 with appraised .267 conditioned average.
- November 19 - Len Sowders, 27, center fielder who gun for .263 pro the Baltimore Orioles a la mode man but grow contemporary 1886.
- December 29 - Asa Brainard, 47, pitcher approving the undefeated 1869 Cincinnati anarchist Stockings.
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